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I think this is more of a general Javascript question than a DataTables one - if you could ask these in another forum such as the Web-developer forums in future: http://www.webdeveloper.com . Having s

1. Use the iDisplayStart option: http://datatables.net/usage/options#iDisplayStart - which will let you jump the display to a certain row. I've just tried this option and it should work fine in 1.5.2.

2. Query("#id1").datatable - the method DataTables provides is called 'dataTable' - so you will get an error if you try to call datatable().

jQuery("#id1").datatable(options);

It certainly does exist: iDataSort is the parameter you are looking for: http://datatables.net/usage/columns#iDataSort

Okay, to set the initial page length use: iDisplayLength - http://datatables.net/usage/options#iDisplayLength

Another option is to add event listeners to each checkbox and change a value in a hidden column (you can use http://datatables.net/usage#iDataSort for this) or hidden element (with custom filtering).

To change the number of records shown on the first draw you can use iDisplayLength - please see the documentation: http://datatables.net/usage#iDisplayLength . You can also use -1 (in v1.5) as the len

1.2. You can do as you say and have a hidden column which you use for sorting the data on the visible column. For this you want the iDataSort parameter: http://datatables.net/usage#iDataSort

What you can do is add an extra (hidden) column to your table with a unix timestamp representation of your date/time and use that column for the sorting on your visible date column (you can use iDataS

1. The number of rows can be controlled by iDisplayLength ( http://datatables.net/usage#iDisplayLength )

Another option is to have a hidden column in the table which has the integer representation of the time, such that the visible column is the friendly "human" one, but is sorted based upon th

or use iDataSort - http://datatables.net/usage#iDataSort - to allow sorting on any column, with your ranking be correctly sorted as well).